SAT阅读练习题及备考技巧推荐

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摘要：SAT阅读练习中最重要的是对时间的掌握，很多学生根本无法完成真题。所以不断做模考，训练自己对SAT阅读速度的把握是非常重要的。现在为大家提供两套SAT阅读练习模拟真题，以及一些SAT阅读练习方法，希望对大家有所帮助。

SAT阅读练习中最重要的是对时间的掌握，很多学生根本无法完成题目。所以不断做模考，训练自己对SAT阅读速度的把握是非常重要的。现在为大家提供两套SAT阅读练习模拟题目，以及一些SAT阅读练习方法，希望对大家有所帮助。

模拟SAT阅读练习

No. 5.

Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in each passage and in any introductory material that may be provided.

Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage.

This excerpt from a novel by a Chinese American author is about a Chinese American woman named June. During a family dinner party attended by some of June's Chinese American friends, Waverly, a tax attorney, discusses an advertisement that June wrote for her.

Waverly laughed in a lighthearted way. "I mean, really, June." And then she started in a deep television-announcer voice: "Three benefits, three x needs, three reasons to buy .... Satisfaction guaranteed . . . ."

She said this in such a funny way that everybody thought it was a good joke and laughed. And then, to make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: "True, one can't teach style. June is :») not sophisticated like you. She must have been born this way."

I was surprised at myself, how humiliated I felt. I had been outsmarted by Waverly once again, and now betrayed by my own mother.

Five months ago, some time after the dinner, my mother gave me my "life's importance," a jade pendant* on a gold chain. The pendant was not a piece of jewelry I would have chosen for myself. It was almost the size of my little finger, a mottled

10green and white color, intricately carved. To me, the whole effect looked wrong: too large, too green, too garishly ornate. I -stuffed the necklace in my lacquer box and forgot about it.

But these days, I think about my life's

15 importance. I wonder what it means, because my mother died three months ago, six days before my thirty-sixth birthday. And she's the only person I could have asked to tell me about life's importance, to help me understand my grief.

20 I now wear that pendant every day. I think the carvings mean something, because shapes and details, which I never seem to notice until after they're pointed out tome, always mean something to Chinese people. I know I could ask Auntie Lindo,

25 Auntie An-mei, or other Chinese friends, but I also know they would tell me a meaning that is different from what my mother intended. What if they tell me this curving line branching into three oval shapes is a pomegranate and that my mother was wishing me fertility and posterity? What if my mother really meant the carvings were a branch of pears to give me purity and honesty?

And because I think about this all the time, I always notice other people wearing these same jade pendants—not the flat rectangular medallions or the round white ones with holes in the middle but ones like mine, a two-inch oblong of bright apple green. It's as though we were all sworn to the

same secret covenant, so secret we don't even know what we belong to. Last weekend, for example, I saw a bartender wearing one. As I fingered mine, I asked him, "Where'd you get yours?"

"My mother gave it to me," he said.

I asked him why, which is a nosy question that only one Chinese person can ask another; in a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.

"She gave it to me after I got divorced. I guess my mother's telling me I'm still worth something." And I knew by the wonder in his voice that he had no idea what the pendant really meant.

16.In lines 1-5, Waverly characterizes June's advertisement as being

(A)unsophisticated and heavy-handed

(B)somber and convoluted

(C)clear and concise

(D)humorous and effective

(E)clever and lively

17In the context of the passage, the statement "I was surprised at myself" (line 12) suggests that June

(A)had been unaware of the extent of her emotional vulnerability

(B)was exasperated that she allowed Waverly to embarrass her in public

(C)was amazed that she could dislike anyone so much

(D)had not realized that her mother admired her friend Waverly

(E)felt guilty about how much she resented her own mother